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"Anything can be turned into academic trash*" - Steve Reich

It's almost a bit silly to link to one or two Red Bull Music Academy interviews, as there are so many that are worth watching. You could lose days in the video archive probably. Regardless, I just found a couple of great ones.

Firstly this Steve Reich interview. It's exciting to hear a kind of untouchable musical giant talking about his work - especially one from such an academic, classical field... even more so when he comes across as pretty ordinary and uncomplex. He really pretty much removes any high art thought away from his music and his creative process, and makes it all sound wonderfully base and just born out of experimentation with loops and sounds and ideas.

And then, just so this blog doesn't turn into a big piano, classical, art music love fest, there is also a link to great Gerald Simpson (aka A Guy Called Gerald) interview. I've not checked all of this yet (can't really do 90+ minutes of Steve Reich and Gerald in one night). But the bits I've seen look interesting and Gerald always comes across as such a grounded and lovely bloke, that I'm sure he's worth checking. Plus, he's made some of the best electronic music of the last 20+ years.